The Downfall Of Music
Shaun Bloodsworth
Dawson
English 101
25 September 2008
“The Downfall of Music”
Over the last ten years, the various styles of music and their accompanying genres have multiplied and, in turn, disintegrated into smaller, broken cliques with little respect for the classics or the integrity “modern music” used to hold. Artists attaching themselves to genres such as “metalcore” or “speedcore tech-metal” only show the intelligent world how many different names one can come up with for the exact same genre of distortional, scream-filled teen angst meant to replace what was already precedent from the early to mid-1990s. Apparently, the world didn’t have enough of these musical topics in the 90s with bands like Nirvana or Alice in Chains whose chart-topping songs were even titled “Smells like Teen Spirit” and “Angry Chair,” obviously aimed towards the angry youth at the time.
While listening in on the several genres of music that are supposedly “different,” one can easily infer that truly they are no different than the next band that claims to be the hot new sound on the streets or the great nouveau in the metal music industry or otherwise for that matter. What each of these bands is not considering is that they are all part of new wave styles of music that are all their own and separated from the labels that they currently clutch so grippingly to themselves. The forefathers of the original metal (Pantera, Metallica, Slayer) have obvious roots in the new generation of bands that each label themselves so different, yet all have the same intimately close connections. These bands like White Chapel, Job for a Cowboy, and All that Remains all sound, when listened to one after the other, quite the same for being labeled as different styles of music with a few variances in each that comes with being a different band, but not a different genre.
The only exception to this it seems is the range and lyrical shape of the songs...
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